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...around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably by 1958, and 2) entrust the design to one of the boldest U.S. modern architects, Finnish-born Eero Saarinen...
Most recent example is Architect Eero Saarinen's new cylindrical chapel for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953), built of rough-textured brick and separated from the campus by a narrow moat. Meant to harmonize with the nearby brick dormitories, the nondenominational chapel presents a severe mask on its exterior; within, it is a citadel for repose and worship...
...welded sculpture is also finding new customers. It is cheaper than cast works, and, by its nature, each object is unique. Collectors are now buying it to decorate Texas and Hollywood patios and Manhattan rooftops. Topflight modern architects-Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, et al.-are using it to decorate new library facades, chapels, and new college buildings...
...building was designed in 1951 by the Finnish architect, Eero Saarinen, who is the chief architect for Brandeis and has remodeled the University of Michigan. Planned when the Korean war was going full blast and seemed interminable, Saarinen had to figure out a way to make an auditorium without using too much steel and still not have too many supporting columns. The "floating" concrete roof proved to be the answer. Designed on roughly the same principles as New York's Hayden Planetarium, the auditorium is unique in that there are only three points of support for the dome. In order...
...chapel. Said Building Committee Chairman Robert M. Kimball : "Seeing it for the first time, a person wonders if this is really a church. Worship doesn't mean the same thing to all people. It wasn't until we began to get the feel of what Saarinen was trying to create that we really appreciated the design." After months of discussion, M.I.T.'s corporation finally approved the chapel. Work on the auditorium has already started...